20 Best Leadership MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online
We compared 20 Leadership courses currently listed on edX and Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $165.00. 19 come from a named university or institution, including Adelaide University, Seoul National University and University of Huddersfield. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 20
- Price range
- $49.00 – $165.00
- Providers
- edX, Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 20 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, Coursera, matched to "Leadership" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $165.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Designing and implementing a leadership development strategy
Offered by Adelaide University
This course is about adopting a strategic, meticulously researched, and carefully planned method for advancing leadership development in your organisation. You will delve into the latest and upcoming trends, such as the...
$165.00listed price -
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AI-Era Relationship Intelligence and Empathetic Leadership
Offered by Seoul National University
In the AI era, technology has advanced but we've become lonelier. Despite 1,000 SNS friends, we have zero real conversations. Remote work connected us, but trust weakened. This course teaches how to build genuine relatio...
$54.00listed price -
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Advanced Leadership Skills & Communication
Offered by University of Huddersfield
Welcome to our "Advanced Leadership Skills & Communication" course, your gateway to mastering effective leadership and transformative communication techniques. This course continues the exploration of leadership theories...
$49.00listed price -
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Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
Offered by Case Western Reserve University
This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and imp...
$49.00listed price -
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Environmental Leadership
Offered by Duke University
What does it mean to be an environmental leader? How can we inspire others to achieve common goals to combat challenges like climate change? This short course provides an entry-level overview of timeless and timely leade...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership in Multinational, Cross-Cultural Teams
Offered by University of California, Davis
Whether you are currently a manager or not, you should now be ready to learn to play a leadership role in a multinational team. Leadership is more than management, and culture greatly affects what is expected of leaders....
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership and Influence
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organ...
$79.00listed price -
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Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership
Offered by Queen Mary University of London
In this course, you will explore the importance of self awareness and feedback, as well as issues such as bias and imposter syndrome. As a leader, it is important to know when to step in and lead, as well as how to estab...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership Foundations & Personal Development
Offered by University of Huddersfield
Welcome to our "Leadership Foundations & Personal Development" course. This program is designed to guide you through the essential principles of leadership and personal growth, equipping you with the skills needed to exc...
$49.00listed price -
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A Guide to Diversifying and Transforming Football Leadership
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam & Fare Network
Football is a globally followed and revered sport. In recent years, concerns over diversity and discrimination in the beloved sport have made international headlines. This has put a spotlight on the lack of representatio...
$49.00listed price -
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Sustainability Leadership Development
Offered by University of Michigan
How organizations and society respond to declines in environmental and social capital is the defining issue of our times. “Sustainability Leadership” explores and analyzes the concepts and application of leadership to em...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership in Action and Planning
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
The course "Leadership in Action and Planning" provides practical skills and strategies for advancing your leadership capabilities in organizational settings. Focusing on strategic planning, change leadership, and coalit...
$49.00listed price -
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Agile Leadership and Data-Driven Strategy
Offered by University of Glasgow
The 21st century has fundamentally disrupted how organisations make decisions and plan for the future. In this course, you'll explore why agility has become an essential leadership capability, and how the rise of data ha...
$49.00listed price -
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Ethical Leadership
Offered by The University of Notre Dame
Welcome to the Specialization in Ethical Leadership! Over the course of a few months, we aim to help you understand how to “Grow the Good in Business” through leadership centered in personal integrity, conviction, and va...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership Development for Engineers
Offered by Rice University
Engineers wanting to advance their careers must be able to lead teams effectively. This Specialization is designed for professional engineers who are interested in advancing into leadership and management roles. You’ll d...
$49.00listed price -
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Web3 and Blockchain Leadership for Transformation
Offered by INSEAD
For most of the last century, critical advances in technology were happening inside large, well-funded industrial R&D machines that dotted the Western world. Today’s landscape, however, is very different. Even the larges...
$99.00listed price -
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Advanced Guest Experience and Service Leadership in Dubai
Offered by Dubai College of Tourism
Welcome to Advanced Guest Experience and Service Leadership in Dubai. This course is designed for learners who already understand the basics of service and want to elevate their skills to a professional and leadership re...
$49.00listed price -
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Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis examines the qualities and practices of leadership amid conditions of uncertainty, chaos, or catastrophic system breakdowns. Within the complex 21st century risk environmen...
$49.00listed price -
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Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making
Offered by Dartmouth College
If you're ready to hone your leadership skills and grow as a person, Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making for Work and Life is designed for you, whether you're a manager or an individual contributor....
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership for Public Health Crises
Offered by The State University of New York
Leadership for Public Health Crises will enable current and prospective managers, directors, unit heads, and elected officials to effectively lead their organizational response to profound health-related emergencies and...
$49.00listed price
Best Leadership MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 20 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $165.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $116.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX and Coursera. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 19 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Adelaide University, Seoul National University and University of Huddersfield — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.